NEWS & UPDATES

New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) made a major seizure of 26 shahtoosh shawls from a shop in a downtown five-star hotel here yesterday, according to official sources...

NEW DELHI: A major seizure of 20 leopard skins and 19 otter skins were made by the West Bengal police from Matigara police station area on the outskirts of Siliguri yesterday, according to...

Kaziranga: The six-month old rhino calf that was rescued a fortnight ago underwent a successful surgery for an abscess in her right foreleg yesterday. The calf had been limping ever since it came in and a team of four veterinarians at the Centre for Wildlife...

Bilaspur: A two-day seminar on legal and policy issues concerning wildlife conservation was recently organised here by the Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) in collaboration with the forest department of Chhattisgarh. The seminar, held here on February 8 and 9...

NEW DELHI: The Fifth Venu Menon Animal Awards were given away by former President, Mr KR Narayanan, at a sombre, but well-attended function at the India Habitat Centre here last...

London: Despite strong protests, three wild elephants removed from a game reserve in South Africa , were transported by a British Airways cargo plane to a zoo in...

New Delhi: A few years ago, a 70-year-old woman was hit by an errant cyclist on the streets. To this day, she cannot walk properly; the knees refuse to cooperate. But that does not stop Edna Simmons from climbing down four floors and a hundred-odd rickety...

Panbari: The recent floods in the north eastern state of Assam had left livestock from the villages surrounding Kaziranga National Park susceptible to Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD). The Wild Aid programme of Wildlife Trust of India swung into action and...

Borjuri, Kaziranga: The Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation (CWRC), the only facility of its kind in India , completes two years today, with the largest bank of endangered species awaiting release to the wild in its...

New Delhi : In a significant step today, the Supreme Court of India issued an interim order directing the Govt. of J&K to obtain an inventory of stocks of shahtoosh shawls and shahtoosh wool from traders in this commodity. Such a declaration of stocks...

Sathyamangalam, Karnataka: Vigilance and action by a conservation worker with Wildlife Trust of India helped the Kollegal police arrest two persons in possession of a tiger skin, reportedly bought off tribals in the south Indian state of...

Daltonganj: A landmine blew up a pick up van belonging to the forest department, killing two of the staff on the spot. The Guardians of the Wild programme run by the Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) under its one-of-its-kind Accident Insurance scheme, which...

Patna : A Rapid Action Project (RAP) of the Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) is popularising the use of an alternative oil, which will help conserve the rare Gangetic dolphin in the eastern Indian state of Bihar...

Pakke: The arrival of a five-month-old Himalayan black bear cub at the Centre for Bear Rehabilitation and Conservation (CBRC) has raised the count of bears at CBRC to six. This cub has had more than its share of adventure, separated at first from its mother...

Diu: The sleepy town of Diu awoke yesterday to the spectacle of a life-sized model of the whale shark, welcoming hundreds of school children to a day of fun near the ancient fort, which culminated in the Diu Municipal Council adopting Vhali, the whale shark...

CWRC, Kaziranga : A two month old, female Asian elephant calf was rescued from a tea garden situated in the Rupajuli Tea Estate and was handed over to the Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation on the 23 rd by local forest officials near Tezpur....

Dwarka: A 40 ft long adult whale shark caught in a gill net, was released by the fishermen, off the coast of Mithapur, where the corporate house, Tata Chemicals’ volunteer staff are spearheading a Wildlife Trust of India(WTI) campaign to protect the...

New Delhi: The 13 th session of the CITES Conference of Parties in Bangkok ended yesterday with a clear signal that the world was slowly opening up to trade in wildlife and killing of endangered species for sport and profit, Vivek Menon , executive director...

Ahmedabad : As colorful crowds converged onto the University grounds in Ahmedabad, they gasped in awe and wonder at a gigantic fish that stared down at them from a pedestal. Vhali, the life-sized model of the whale shark, all of forty feet, became the centre...

Tusker at Ten, would have been an apt title for a quaint story of the 1930s of the “humble” beginnings of a legendary shikari. Only that after 17 years, which witnessed the murder of 2000 tuskers, over 150 people and who knows how many tigers and...